The Awkwardness of Silence

Everyone seems to get really uncomfortable during prolonged periods of silences. Alot of people mention that it's awkward but that it's usually short lived because someone will say something stupid that breaks the awkwardness. I'm usually the person who says something stupid and I guess it's just because I don't feel awkward in silence, I just think it's funny. Even on the first day of class when Sal walked in and didn't say anything, everyone just sat there and looked around the room to see what other people were doing, and I'm sitting there laughing. Then we talked about the idea that, as a culture, we're taught that moments of silences are supposed to be uncomfortable and that you should just fill the silence with random talking. I disagree with that. The whole day is filled with people talking to you and you talking back to them. Moments of prolonged silence are rare, so why ruin them with pointless conversation?

Me on blogging

I've never had a class before where we were supposed to keep some sort of journal or, in this case, an online blog. I think it's pretty cool but I don't really know much about what to write. The only blogs I've ever seen are the ones that we looked at in media class and those were by authors that were always angry at someone or something and saw fit to cuss for page after page. I never really saw the point of reading someone else complain about life, but I definetely got a few cheap laughs in. I've actually read about people who get really involved in online blogging and they met thousands of people through their blogs. That's cool and all, but I think that if you can honestly tell other people that you have more than one thousand friends then you probably need to do a little re-evaluting on life. But this won't turn in to one of those obsessive blogs since it's just for school, so it's all good.